[Gllug] Win&Lin accessible filesystems

[John Edwards]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:19:29AM +0000, Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:32:32AM -0000, Paul Brazier wrote:

>> This was from the linux version of fdisk, it says the Windows partitions
>> are:
>> HPFS/NTFS		7
>> Win Ext'd (LBA)	f

> Don't go doing anything to the Extended partition!!
> 
> The short story:  It actually contains other drives!!  They will disappear
> too if you remove the extended partition!!

Yes you're right. 

The machine I was on had the extended partition as type 7 "Extended", 
I've checked on another machine (RedHat 7.2) and it is type f 
"Win95 Ext'd (LBA)". I think that the first was partitioned many 
years ago under DOS or NT4.


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